Quotes by Frank Lowy - Page 1

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Entitled
Paid
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I have no fear about the future for retail investors.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Investors
No Fear
Retail
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Democracy needs to be nurtured and treated with care.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Democracy
Needs
Nurtured
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Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Optimistic
Felt
Invincible
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Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Downs
Forward
Ups
Ups And Downs
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I don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Successes
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I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Transactions
Values
Wells
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As a teenager I became a boat person - a refugee - as I made my way to Palestine.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Boat
Palestine
Refugee
Teenager
Became
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I believe in a big Australia. I am an advocate for an ambitious immigration program.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Immigration
Believe I Am I Believe
Advocate
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I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Retired
Contribute
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The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Forget
Loss
Pain
Life Father My Life
Event
Traumatic
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So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Courage
Auschwitz
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I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age of 87.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Lifetime
Young Age
Life Change Time
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All I was looking for is to be successful. I had the opportunity with Australia, with what it provided for me economically.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Economically
Provided
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I was in Australia for many years. And the system there is a two-party system and the government changes from time to time.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
From Time To Time
Two-Party
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I wanted to build a family very strongly because I lost my family when I was 15, 14, and I missed the family unit very much.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Family Unit
Missed
Strongly
Unit
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As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Meant To Be
Persecuted
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To imagine a better life for yourself and your family and to leave behind all that is familiar requires a special kind of courage.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Better Life
Familiar
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don't think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Resourceful
Survival
Too Much
Very
Much
Being
Too
Fight
Human
Human Being
Sink
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From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Wake Up
Switch
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In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Business Sense
Clubs
Emotion
Involved
Decisions
Yes
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The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Hard Work
Moving
Philosophy
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For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Business
Economics
Mountain
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I knew that Britain and the United States were beacons of freedom and democracy at a time when my life - and Western civilisation itself - was at grave risk.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Civilisation
Life Time Freedom
Life Freedom Time
Grave
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All my life from a young man I have worked very hard and I enjoyed it very much and I was really afraid with what I would do when I no longer had the responsibility.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Enjoyed
Responsibility
Young Man
Life Man My Life
Afraid
All My Life
Longer
Worked
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So you've got to test the envelope, find out what are your abilities and if you falter, pick yourself up and test it again. Otherwise, what is it all about, you know?
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Yourself Your Find
Yourself Your Know
Envelope
Falter
Otherwise
Pick
Test
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When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Hungry
Lone
Soldier
Ate
Penny
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As a boy I stood at the doorway of our hiding place in Budapest and watched Russian troops fight house by house to liberate the city and therefore rescue us from certain death.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Budapest
Hiding
Rescue
Troops
Doorway
Liberate
Russian
Stood
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What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Beach
Contribution
Enjoy Life
Productive
Life Family Society
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It was very frustrating when I was president of Hakoah. You could not make any headway. We couldn't attract the public because it was an ethnic game. Australians were not interested.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Frustrating
Not Interested
Attract
Australians
Ethnic
Headway
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I have... been disturbed by the negative tone of the debate over immigration... there is a rising crescendo of opinion from columnists and politicians saying we should reduce our immigration intake.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Debate
Disturbed
Immigration
Rising
Tone
Intake
Reduce
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We need to give the prime minister of the day a chance. If he or she cannot win an election, so be it. But no prime minister can push through the reforms we need if they cannot even finish a term in office.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Election
Prime Minister
He Or She
Reforms
Minister
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My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Big Money
Donations
Philanthropists
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The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama for me. It was just after my bar mitzvah and it was so tragic. The effect on me, I carry it all my life.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Bar Mitzvah
Drama
Loss
Mitzvah
Mourning
Tragic
Life Me Father
All My Life
Bar
Carry
Effect
Life Father Me
Marked
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The game needs to be funded by sponsors, by members, by broadcasters. There needs to be a commercial relationship between the FFA and the people who supply the money so it is a natural alliance. Sport is not a charity.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Broadcasters
Charity
Sponsors
Alliance
Supply
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I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.
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Auschwitz
Institute
Life Time Work
Life Work Time
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We are focusing too much on the problems and forgetting about the opportunities of immigration. Let us learn from our history. Immigration has been great for Australia in the past. I believe it will be great for Australia in the future.
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Immigration
Focusing
Forgetting
Let Us
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I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Balanced
Hardness
Shareholders
Softness
Obligations
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Never give up! People don't understand how persistent you have to be. You come up against an obstacle and you have to find a way of moving forward. You take detours, navigate between the obstacles and make it happen. Unless you are very strong and convinced you can succeed, you will be swept away.
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Giving Up
Moving
Strong
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Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.
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Wisdom
Business
Successful
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Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful, there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money, you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.
Frank Lowy / Businessman
Commodity
Misunderstood
Succeed
Successful
Money Your Will
Doctor
Dictated
Fact
Follow
Something Else
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don't talk about legacy. I have a job to do, and I'm doing it. And I'm not expecting a legacy and I'm not expecting to get pride from some legacy, I'm doing a job that I believe needs to be done. I am willing to do it for the time, and I am not looking for some kind of an accolade or whatever. I don't consider myself anything special. I work hard.
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Jobs
Believe
Hard Work
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